Monday January 7 2002 | ||
| Monday Morning Plenary Session 1 | ||
| Margaret Murnane, JILA (Attosecond Science) ``Coherent Control of Atoms and Molecules on Attosecond Timescales'' | ||
| Paul Corkum, National Research Council of Canada (Attosecond Science) ``Producing, Measuring and Using Attosecond Optical and Electron Pulses'' | ||
| Harm Muller, AMOLF Netherlands (Attosecond Science) ``Measurement of attosecond structure in XUV pulses from high-harmonic generation'' | ||
| Monday Morning Invited Session 1 | ||
| Attosecond Science | (Open) | Quantum Communication |
| Ken Schafer, Lund University/Louisiana State University ``Theory of electron spectra from ultrafast cross-correlation processes'' |
Mikhail D. Lukin, Harvard University ``Quantum Communication in Noisy Channels via Atomic Ensembles and Light'' |
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| Justin Peatross, Brigham Young University ``Controlling Laser High Harmonic Generation with Weak Interfering Light'' |
Prem Kumar, Northwestern University ``Fiber-optic quantum communications'' |
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| Warren Warren, Princeton University ``Femtosecond Pulse Shaping Throughout the Electromagnetic Spectrum'' |
Talk Cancelled | |
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| Monday Morning Plenary Session 2 | ||
| Jim Harris, Stanford University (Semiconductor Lasers) ``GaInNAs Long Wavelength Lasers: The Potential and Challenges'' | ||
| Kohzo Hakuta, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan (Attosecond Science) ``Parametric Raman Beating in Solid Hydrogen: Towards Subfemtosecond Pulse Generation'' | ||
| Monday Morning Invited Session 2 | ||
| Attosecond Science | Semiconductor Lasers | Novel Optics |
| Deniz Yavuz, Stanford University ``Multiplicative technique for single cycle pulses'' |
Dennis Deppe, University of Texas at Austin ``Electrically Injected Microcavity Devices for Single Photon Sources'' |
Dmitry Budker, UC Berkeley ``Nonlinear faraday magnetometry for the earth's field'' |
| Alexei Sokolov, TAMU ``Femtosecond Light Source Synchronized with Molecular Motion'' |
Weng Chow, Sandia ``Anomalous dispersion in quantum dots - Deviations from the `atom-like' picture'' |
Irina Novikova, TAMU ``Generation of Squeezed Vacuum via Zeeman Coherence in Hot Atomic Vapor'' |
| Max Zolotorev, LBNL ``Production and application of bunches of ultrarelativistic electrons with attosecond duration'' |
Alexey Belyanin, TAMU ``Nonlinear optical phenomena in semiconductor lasers with self-generated driving fields'' |
Michael Fitch, Johns Hopkins ``High resolution quantum optics applied to metrology and clocks'' |
| Hersch Pilloff, JILA ``The negative potential well in atom guiding and a new atom trap'' |
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| -- Afternoon -- | ||
| Yoshi Yamamoto, Stanford University (Nanostructure Optics) ``Generation of single photons and entangled photon-pairs from a single quantum dot'' | ||
| Carlos Stroud, University of Rochester (Wigner Distribution) ``Quantum Mechanics at the Classical-Quantum Interface'' | ||
| Richard Packard, University of California at Berkeley (Novel Optics) ``The He3 dc-SQUID: a superFLUID quantum interference device'' | ||
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| Monday Evening Invited Session | ||
| Nanostructure Optics | Wigner Distribution | Novel Optics |
| Sergey Bozhevolnyi, Aalborg University, Institute of Physics, Denmark ``Second-harmonic microscopy of individual nanostructures'' |
Patrick Loughlin, University of Washington ``Application of the Wigner distribution to shallow-water sound propagation'' |
Jean-Claude Diels, University of New Mexico ``Stabilization of mode-locked trains, and dark resonance of two-photon lambda level structures'' |
| David Nolte, Purdue University ``Photorefractive Semiconductor Nanostructures'' |
Lorenzo Galleani, Politecnico di Torino, Italy ``The Wigner distribution as a tool for studying differential equations'' |
William Harter, University of Arkansas ``Coherent Waves Make Space and Time Reference Frames: Symmetry properties of quantum revivals and fractals'' |
| Hui Cao, Northwestern, Physics ``Quantum Dot Microdisk Lasers'' |
Leon Cohen, City University of New York (Hunter College) ``Why do wave packets sometimes contract?'' |
Achim Peters, Universitaet Konstanz ``Testing the foundations of special relativity using cryogenic optical resonators'' |
| Vladimir M. Shalaev, Purdue Unviersity ``Manipulating Light and Sensing Molecules with Plasmonic Nanomaterials'' |
Mark Pilloff, UC Berkeley ``Wigner Distriubtions and Condensate Statistics in the Weakly Interacting Bose Gas'' |
Paul Voss, Northwestern ``Experimental Realization of "Universal Homodyne Tomography" with a Single Local Oscillator'' |
Tuesday January 8 2002 | ||
| Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 1 | ||
| Lov Grover, Lucent Technologies (Quantum Computing) | ||
| W. Barletta, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (X-Rays) ``Dedicated Synchrotron Radiation Sources for Ultra-fast X-ray Science'' | ||
| Ercan Alp, Argonne National Laboratory (X-Rays) ``Inelastic X-Ray Scattering with Synchrotron Radiation'' | ||
| Tuesday Morning Invited Session 1 | ||
| X-Rays | Quantum Computing | Novel Optics |
| Olga Kocharovskaya, TAMU ``Electromagnetically induced transparency in gamma-rays'' |
Shaya Fainman, Univ. of California, San Diego ``Quantum Device Technologies -- Applying 2-D Photonic Crystals'' |
Paul Robinson, Sandia ``A Brief Survey of Major Laser Programs at Sandia National Labs'' |
| David Attwood, UC Berkeley ``Soft X-ray Microscopy and EUV Lithography: Imaging in the 20-50 nm Regime'' |
Mark Gyure, HRL Laboratories ``Scalable Quantum Information Processing Devices'' |
Christopher Fang-Yen, M.I.T. ``Multiple thresholds in the microlaser'' |
| Zameer Hasan and Aras Konjhodzic, Temple University ``Coherent Control of Nuclear States: Mossbauer Studies of Eu2+/Eu3+ in II-VI Materials'' |
Talk Cancelled | Gerhard Paulus, MPQ, Germany ``Measurement of the absolute phase of a femtosecond laser pulse'' |
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| Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 2 | ||
| Claire Gmachl, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (New Frontiers of Semiconductor Optoelectronics) ``High performance Quantum Cascade lasers from the mid- to far-infrared and applications'' | ||
| Paul Brumer, University of Toronto (Coherent Control) ``Developments in the Coherent Control of Molecular Processes: Controlling Chaos and Chirality'' | ||
| Tuesday Morning Invited Session 2 | ||
| New Frontiers of Semiconductor Optoelectronics | Quantum Computing | Coherent Control |
| Rolf Binder, University of Arizona ``Theory of intervalence band coherences in semiconductor quantum wells'' |
Thomas L. Reinecke, Naval Research Laboratory ``Semiconductor Nanostructures for Quantum Information Technology'' |
Jon Marangos, Imperial College ``High order harmonic generation and electron wavepacket interference in aligned molecules'' |
| Axel Schulzgen, University of Arizona ``Coherently coupled optical Stark shifts in a semiconductor 3 band system'' |
Mark Coffey, TRW ``SQUID-Based Quantum Computing: Exploiting the Flux Basis'' |
Robert Levis, Wayne State University ``Chemical Control Using Tailored, Strong Laser Fields'' |
| Michele Saba, Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne ``Polariton Parametric Amplification in Semiconductor Microcavities'' |
Todd Pittman, Johns Hopkins ``Demonstration of non-deterministic quantum logic operations using linear optical elements'' |
Tamar Seideman, National Research Council, Canada ``Molecular Interferometry in Configuration Space'' |
| Talk Moved | Victor Batista, Yale University ``Coherent optical control of reaction dynamics in large molecular systems'' |
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| -- Afternoon -- | ||
| Tuesday Evening Plenary Session | ||
| Robert Byer, Stanford (Scalable High Power Solid State Lasers) ``Scalable High Power Solid State Lasers'' | ||
| Lu J. Sham, University of California, San Diego (Quantum Computing) ``Quantum Operations in Semiconductor Dots'' | ||
| Vern Schlie, AFRL/DELS (Scalable High Power Solid State Lasers) ``Scaling SSL: Realistic - Invariant Propagating Beams'' | ||
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| Tuesday Evening Invited Session | ||
| Scalable High Power Solid State Lasers | Quantum Information | National Security |
| Sasha Betin, Raytheon ``High Power Solid State Lasers with Phase Conjugation'' |
Alexander Sergienko, Boston University ``Hyper-entanglement and Quantum Cryptography'' |
Al Garroway, NRL ``Detection of Landmines by Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR): better than a Pointed Stick?'' |
| Dennis Harris, Boeing LEOS and LLNL ``1 KW Yb: YAG Laser'' |
Janos Bergou, Hunter College, CUNY ``Quantum State Filtering'' |
Timothy Brucks, Raytheon ``Target Detection Algorithms and Approaches for Uncooled Infrared Imagery'' |
| Scott Fochs, LLNL ``Heat Capacity Operation of Solid-State Laser System Near Term Solution to Mobile High Avg Power Field Laser'' |
Robin Cote, University of Connecticut ``Mesoscopic molecular ions in Bose-Einstein condensates'' |
Marlan O. Scully, TAMU ``FAST CARS: and Anthrax detection'' |
| Ken-ichi Ueda, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan ``Ceramic Lasers: New Generation of Solid State Laser Materials'' |
See Leang Chin and Charles M. Bowden, Laval and U. S. Army Aviation & Missile Research ``High-Power Ultra-Short Laser Pulse Propagation in the Atmosphere: White-Light Pulse'' |
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Wednesday January 9 2002 | ||
| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 1 | ||
| Gerard Mourou, University of Michigan (Ultra-Fast and Relativistic Optics) ``Ultrahigh Intensity, Relativistic Optics and Applications'' | ||
| Henry Kapteyn, JILA (Ultra-Fast and Relativistic Optics) ``Compressing Light Pulses with Spinning Molecules'' | ||
| Rufus L. Cone, Montana State University (Rare Earth Materials and Applications) ``Overview of Rare Earth Materials for Quantum Information Applications'' | ||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 1 | ||
| Ultra-Fast and Relativistic Optics | Rare Earth Materials and Applications | Quantum Enhancement of Spatial Resolution |
| Phillip Sprangle, NRL ``Compression, Focusing, Filamentation and Spectral Broadening of Laser Pulses Propagating in Air'' |
Uwe Happek, University of Georgia ``Thermally stimulated laser excitation spectroscopy (TSLES): Another tool to locate the position of impurity energy levels relative to the host energy bands'' |
Hwang Lee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ``Showdown at High NOON'' |
| Dinh C. Nguyen, LAN ``Femtosecond Free-Electron Laser Laser Pulses'' |
C. W. Thiel, Montana State University ``Progress in Relating Rare Earth Ion 4f and 5d Energy Levels to Host Bands and Optical Material Design for Hole Burning, Quantum Information, and Phosphors'' |
Deborah Jackson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ``The Use of Correlated Photons in Optical Communications Links'' |
| Alexander Gaeta, Cornell University ``Robust pulse collapse: observation of the Townes soliton'' |
Marcus Pollnau, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ``Fractional energy-transfer upconversion as a probe for rare-earth-ion distributions in the host'' |
Colin Williams, Stanford University ``Automated Design of Quantum Circuits and Interferometers'' |
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| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 2 | ||
| Award Lamb Medal (Lamb Medal) ``The presentation of the 2002 Willis E. Lamb medal for Laser Science and Quantum Optics to Jonathan Dowling, Luigi Lugiato, and Yanhua Shih'' | ||
| John Holzrichter, LLNL (Physics at Sandia National Labs) ``Review of optical projects at LLNL'' | ||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 2 | ||
| Ultra-Fast and Relativistic Optics | Applications of Optical Coherent Transients and Spectral Hole Burning | Quantum Computing |
| Jens Schwarz, University of New Mexico ``Self-trapped filaments in air, how much energy can they carry, how will they go?'' |
Kelvin Wagner, University of Colorodo ``Spatial-spectral holography for broadband RF array imaging and high resolution spectral analysis'' |
Chia-Ren Hu, TAMU ``A family of sure-fire quantum algorithms for solving a generalized Grover search problem'' |
| Charles M. Bowden, U. S. Army Aviation & Missile Research ``Intense Femtosecond Pulse Propagation in Air: Intensity Clamping and Third Harmonic Generation'' |
Ivan Lorgere, Lab. Aimé Cotton, CNRS ``Broadband radio-frequency spectrum-analysis based on spectral hole burning'' |
M. Suhail Zubairy, TAMU ``Quantum searching, with and without entanglement'' |
| Talk Cancelled | Kris Merkel, Montana State University ``Analog optical processing of high bandwidth, large dynamic range signals using spectral hole burning'' |
Mark Byrd, University of Toronto ``Bang-Bang Operations for Quantum Error Suppression From a Geometric Perspective'' |
| Talk Cancelled | Thomas Bottger, Montana State University ``Lasers Stabilized to Regenerative Spectral Holes - Experiment, Modeling, and SHB Material Optimization'' |
Chitra Rangan, University of Michigan ``Performing Grover's search algorithm on a Rydberg atom data register'' |
| Ravi Jain, UNM ``Novel Tunable Fiber Lasers based on Rare-Earth Doped Glasses'' |
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| -- Afternoon -- | ||
| Wednesday Evening Plenary Session | ||
| Jonathan P. Dowling, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Quantum Enhancement of Spatial Resolution) ``Quantum Metrology'' | ||
| Yanhua Shih, UMBC (Quantum Entanglement) ``Quantum Imaging and Uncertainty principle'' | ||
| Luigi Lugiato, Universitā dell'Insubria (Quantum Entanglement) ``Cavity solitons in semiconductor microresonators: theory and experiment'' | ||
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| Wednesday Evening Invited Session | ||
| Ultra-Fast and Relativistic Optics | (Open) | Laser Interactions |
| See Leang Chin, Laval ``Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulse Propagation in Air'' |
Mingzhen Tian, Montana State University ``Optical Coherent Transient True-Time Delay: Broadband Programming Methods'' |
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| Sudeep Banerjee, University of Michigan ``High Harmonic Generation in Plasmas by Relativistic Thomson Scattering'' |
Martin Weitz, Universitaet Tuebingen ``Controlled Decoherence in Multiple Beam Ramsey Interference'' |
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| Boaz Ilan, Tel Aviv University ``Self-Focusing and Multiple Filamentation of Circularly-Polarized Beams'' |
Robert Lucht, TAMU ``Time-Dependent, Multi-State Numerical Simulation of Laser Interactions'' |
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| Talk Cancelled | Shi-Yao Zhu, Hong Kong Baptist University ``Spontaneous Emission manipulation by 2-pi pulses'' |
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Thursday January 10 2002 | ||
| Thursday Morning Plenary Session 1 | ||
| Randy Hulet, Rice University (B. E. C.) ``Quantum Degeneracy in a Mixed Bose/Fermi Gas'' | ||
| Ron Folman, University of Heidelberg, Germany (B. E. C.) ``The atom chip: manipulation of ultra cold atoms on nano-fabricated surfaces'' | ||
| Michael Feld, M.I.T. (Medical Physics) ``Optical Spectroscopy for Cancer Detection: Final Diagnosis and Fractal Dimension'' | ||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 1 | ||
| Novel solid state materials for EIT, QED, and quantum computing | B. E. C. | Ultra slow and fast group velocity and its applications |
| Robert Armstrong, New Mexico State University ``Enhanced emission from fractal/microcavity composites'' |
Vitaly Kocharovsky, TAMU ``Exchange of Atoms between Condensate and Noncondensate'' |
Daniel J. Gauthier, Duke University ``Modulation-instability limits to ``fast'' light pulse propagation'' |
| Tom Kennedy, Naval Research Laboratory ``A Model Qubit using Optics and Microwaves with the NV-Center in Diamond'' |
Murray Barrett, Georgia Institute of Technology ``All Optical BEC'' |
Philip R. Hemmer , TAMU ``Ultra slow and stopped light pulses in a solid'' |
| Zameer Hasan, Temple University ``Doped II-VI semiconductors with large electric dipole moments'' |
Juha Javanainen, University of Connecticut ``A dense BEC: is there a scattering length?'' |
Robert W. Boyd, University of Rochester ``Slow Light in Nanostructured Optical Materials'' |
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| Thursday Morning Plenary Session 2 | ||
| Eric Mazur, Harvard University (Direct observation of coherent phonons) ``Oscillating between semiconductor and metal: moving ions faster than electron wave functions can spread'' | ||
| Gunter Nimtz, University of Cologne/Germany (Ultra slow and fast group velocity and its applications) ``Universal Tunnelling Time and Nonlocal Reflection by Photonic Barriers'' | ||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 2 | ||
| Novel solid state materials for EIT, QED, and quantum computing | B. E. C. | Ultra slow and fast group velocity and its applications |
| Alfred J. Meixner, Universität Siegen, Germany ``Nanoscale Surface-Enhanced Resonance Raman Spectroscopy at the Single-Molecule Level'' |
Talk Moved | Yuri Rostovtsev, TAMU ``Stop and Go Control of Light in Hot Gasses'' |
| E. Kuznetsova, TAMU ``Atomic interference phenomena in solids with a long-lived spin coherence'' |
Fam Le Kien, University of Electro-Communications, Japan ``Slow Light in Solid Hydrogen'' |
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| Byoung Ham, E.T.R.I. ``Dark resonance coherence swapping for optical switching'' |
Jacob Khurgin, Johns Hopkins University ``Slow wave propagation and switching in nonlinear fiber gratings'' |
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| -- Afternoon -- | ||
| Thursday Evening Plenary Session | ||
| Aleksander Rebane, Montana State University (Novel solid state materials for EIT, QED, and quantum computing) ``Ultrafast coherent transients in one- and two-photon transitions in organic solids'' | ||
| Klaus-Juergen Witte, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Quantenoptik (Ultra-Fast and Relativistic Optics) ``Fusion and Star Plasmas Generated with Femtosecond Laser Pulses'' | ||
| Malvin Teich, Boston University and Columbia University (Multi-Photon Detection) ``Multi-Photon Absorption'' | ||
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| Thursday Evening Invited Session | ||
| EIT | (Open) | Quantum Entanglement |
| George R. Welch, TAMU ``EIT and Radiation Trapping'' |
Dmitry Strekalov, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech ``Two-photon processes in faint biphoton field'' |
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| R. Kolesov, TAMU ``Optical continua generation in a coherently prepared Raman Medium'' |
Yoon Ho Kim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory ``Preparing bright polarization-entangled photon pairs via temporal and spectral engineering'' |
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| Cun-Yun Ye, TAMU ``Three-Photon EIT in Hot Atomic Vapor'' |
David Petrosyan, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel ``Entanglement transfer from dissociated molecules to photons'' |
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